The NYC band’s first album in seven years is sluggish and slight, rendering their signature sound as background music.

可以说the Strokes是当代美国最出色的独立摇滚乐队之一。不过与绝大多数美国摇滚乐队不同的是，他们的音乐更多的带有英国摇滚乐的特点。纽约的许多成功的地下摇滚乐队对the Strokes在音乐道路上有着重要的影响，而朋克乐队Television和Iggy Pop的乐队对他们的音乐风格也产生了一定的影响，对于乐队核心Julian Casablancas而言，甲壳虫乐队的巨星John Lennon对他的影响则是无可替代的，这也基本上是乐队英国情结的根源，而他们在很年轻的时候最为崇拜的乐队也是来自英国。
the Strokes的几名成员很早的时候就是相互之间最好的朋友，乐队的雏形最早成立于1998年，Julian Casablancas的是一名模特公司老板的儿子，他和吉他手Nick Valensi，以及在上小学以前就已经开始练习敲鼓的鼓手Fabrizio Moretti一起参加了曼哈顿一家学校的活动。不久之后，缺乏贝司手的他们找到了Nikolai Fraiture，并且很快就把他吸引入队弥补了空缺。随后，来自洛杉矶的小Albert Hammond也被Julian Casablancas邀请加入了这支还没有名字的乐队，小Albert Hammond的父亲是老牌的歌手兼词曲作者Albert Hammond，老Albert Hammond还曾经在1987年获得过奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖的提名。1999年，Julian Casablancas的乐队正式把名字叫做the Strokes。
在the Strokes乐队成立之初，他们只能通过一些小型的演唱会来展示自己，他们在一些酒吧，俱乐部，夜总会演出。经过了将近两年的不稳定生活之后，他们已经在纽约的一定范围内有了比较大的名气。2001年对于the Strokes乐队是具有转折意义的一年，1月，Rough Trade唱片公司为他们发行了一张只有三手单曲组成的EP试音唱片《The Modern Age》，但是这张专辑居然出人意料的引起了相当大的关注，随后的签约争夺战中RCA唱片公司拿到了合约，the Strokes乐队的声名也通过8月27日在Rough Trade唱片公司发行的首张专辑《Is This It》的英国版迅速跃过了大西洋传到了英伦三岛上，并且取得了相当了得的成绩，但是唱片封面上，一只带着黑皮手套的手放在了一名裸露的女人臀部，因而在保守的英国引起了不小的争议。但是争议归争议，通过在英国场场门票售尽，歌迷爆满的巡演，the Strokes乐队在英国的拥趸数量与日俱增，他们开始成为一股强大的摇滚势力冲击着英国乐坛。9月25日，《Is This It》的美国版本才姗姗来迟，不过专辑封面倒是换成了相对“稳妥”的图案，同时由于专辑是在9·11事件发生仅仅两周之后发行，因而撤掉了原来英国版中3分36秒的单曲《New York City Cops(纽约城巡警)》而改为了2分57秒的单曲《When It Started》。经过大规模的全美巡演之后，音乐风格与众不同的the Strokes乐队逐渐发展为了美国最重要的乐队之一，他们的音乐不仅得到了乐迷们的追捧，跟难能可贵的是还得到了一向苛刻的评论界的大量的赞誉之辞，他们独特的音乐风格的到了一致的认可。
2002年，the Strokes乐队展开了贯通全年的漫长巡回演出，并且还和另一支有布鲁斯风格的独立摇滚乐队the White Stripes一起演出，经过巡演之后，乐队的影响力日益增大。进入2003年，着名的《滚石》杂志在10月底把the Strokes乐队作为了杂志的封面人物，一句标题“The new kings of rock cut loose”足以说明他们所取得的成就了。同时，the Strokes乐队也完成了他们倍受期待的第二张专辑《Room on Fire》的录制工作，2003年10月21日，第二张专辑《Room on Fire》正式发行。 　---　上述简介均来自网络

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“DANCE ROCK！ 带你领略绝对不一样的21世纪！”这是一支成立于04年冬的女孩主唱的摇滚乐队，创造着属于他们自己的DANCE ROCK，洗炼直白富于现场表现，具有跳舞音乐的明快节奏与车库音乐的原始粗糙，同时散发着怀旧的气质，具有如同80年代侦探片般的幽默与紧张。灵活的唱腔的和偏执犀利的口琴代替了舞曲中人声的机械重复，他们喜欢简单直接，也喜欢珠光宝气；喜欢精致，也倡导业余；喜欢新事物，更怀念那个曾充满生气的年代。这是一支有相当潜质的北京新摇滚乐队！
后海大鲨鱼首张专辑，爆烈都市美妙可怕，带你们领略绝对不一样的21世纪！
01 闪电大都会
02 硬心
03 不！不！不
04 老虎死跳舞
05 亲吻！干掉！砰！
06 女猛兽
07 月亮上的人儿啊
08 你好，过去人
09 我想拉住你的手
10 肮脏思想
11 金钱笨蛋
12 姐妹女士
13 走你
14 爱是热门

Japanese edition of the New York indie act's eagerly anticipated sophomore album is scheduled to include one bonus track. Details TBA. RCA. 2003.

千嬉年之后，美国纽约的地下音乐由The Strokes、White Stripes等乐队的迅速崛起迎来了垃圾音乐的复苏。而这支同样来自美国纽约的3人小乐团也是在这样的背景下诞生的。自3年前那张《Fever To Tell》发行后，他们就成了美国地下音乐的名角了，这不只在于他们在音乐上的杰出表现，更在于他们音乐所表述的那些关于性爱、同性恋等话题。
整支乐队给人映象最深的当然是女主唱Karen O了，你可以用一切诸如歇斯底里，放荡不羁等词语去形容她，对于这个需要偶像的年代，Karen O自然因此也赢得了不少Fans。在舞台上，她总是表现出那充满力量的情绪，用着那些“陈词滥调”去真诚的打动你，或者用她那特有的张力去唤醒你体内的荷尔蒙……
3年之后，Yeah Yeah Yeahs带着这张依然前卫的《Show your Bones》再度出现在我们的视线中。
首支单曲Gold Lion随着木吉他的欢快节奏为我们款款道来，而随之而来的Way Out他们再度讲述着自己对性爱的理解，It's Just A Way Out...不知道这张专辑的下一首单曲会是哪首，但是如果是我，一定会选择这首Way Out，虽然只有短短的的不到3分钟，但是绝对可以体现他们这几年对音乐上的理解和专辑的概念。那首Phenomena的反复歌词不知道我有没有听错，They had sth.like banana...一滴汗。整体上，专辑依然是围绕着主唱时而欢愉时而忧伤的嗓音进行，乐队的另外两位成员Nick Zinner和Brian Chase也随着Karen O富有张力的表现力变换吉它的旋律与鼓声的节奏。一张近乎完美的狂放之作，推荐给大家

《First Impressions of Earth》是The Strokes乐队加入RCA之后的第二张专辑，也是乐队的第三张正式专辑。专辑在美国发行第一周的销量为8万8千张,在本周Billboard 200专辑榜中的排名却与《Room on Fire》持平，名列本周第四位。在本周Billboard 200专辑榜中的排名却与《Room on Fire》持平，名列本周第四位。
在专辑的制作方面，The Strokes仍和包办了前两张专辑的老搭档Gordon Raphael继续合作，顺理成章的就是，The Strokes在音乐上不仅再次延续了之前的复古曲风，而且更是将乐队擅长做的旋律华的精彩的Riff发挥得淋漓尽致。无论是开篇曲目《You Only Live Once》，还是打榜单曲《Juicebox》，或是《Razor Blade》，The Strokes标志性的Riff都贯穿始终，而创作核心Julian Casablancas也再次包办了其中大多数的歌曲。

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the New York City music scene floated in a surfaceless orbit of samplers, shoegazers, and delay pedals. The city's guitars lay choked by a digital fog, or else they lay dustily forgotten. Then, in 2002, an unbridled five-song EP by an unknown band brought noise, sex, passion, and mayhem back to the stage and to the stereo. The band's name evoked the kid who knows that whoever's in charge is full of s**t -- "yeah, yeah, yeah" -- but it also rang with the affirmation of pure rock and roll: F**k yeah! The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first full-length album, Fever to Tell, was simultaneously filthy, infectious, sloppy, and brilliant. You could dance to it, and you could probably die to it. "Maps" was nominated for a Grammy, and the record went gold in the UK.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs spawned a new breed of power trio. They work together as a single organism, but each member maintains their own personality and contributes their own strengths. Think of them as a three-piece Earth, Wind, and Fire. On second thought, it's probably better if you didn't do that. Brian Chase's drumming couldn't be tighter or more precise, even as the band descends into the pitch-dark caves of noise he frequents in his free-jazz spare time--and one can hear rigor and experiment behind even his simplest, no-frills (or -fills) rhythms. Nick Zinner's guitar pushes back--hard--against Chase's formalism, grounding the group in rock and roll at its ballsiest, dirtiest, and most shredly. His soaring, sometimes grinding lines are wires connecting Chase's drums to the psychologically kaleidoscopic vocals of Karen O, who, as the New Yorker has noted, would have been a success "had she appeared with nothing more than a microphone and a pair of maracas."
The band developed an itchy and unshakeable aversion to repeating itself. It would have been easy enough to record another spastic, live-sounding garage album after the success of Fever, but their next full-length, 2007's Show Your Bones, added acoustic guitar and more serious compositions that picked up on the direction suggested by a song like "Maps." Rolling Stone called the record a "textural triumph," and the group honed their legendary stage performance -- one cannot understand the Yeah Yeah Yeahs without seeing Karen O writhing and thriving onstage. A handful of great songs that didn't make it onto Bones became tour staples (and fan favorites), and the band sat down with the celebrated PiL/Slits/Gang of Four producer Nick Launay to record 2007's EP Is Is.
Last year, the Yeahs shook their Etch A Sketch® clean to start work on a new record with producers Dave Sitek and Nick Launay. "We usually go into these things totally blind," Karen O said. "We have no idea what's going to happen when we sit down." This empty page feeling was helped by geography: they began writing the record in the middle of a snowstorm, in a hundred-year-old barn in rural Massachusetts. "You looked out the window and it was just pastures and pastures of snow-covered fields," she said. Zinner had brought along a synthesizer to work with during the writing session, not expecting it to end up on the album. "That was an old keyboard I bought on eBay," he said. "Literally, it was the first day we were setting up, plugging things in. Ten minutes later, we'd written that song 'Skeletons.'" The song--and the whole record--have a new feeling of space and atmosphere that's unusual for the band. "Obviously, synths have been in rock music forever," Zinner says. "But to us it feels new, which is all we really care about--that excitement."
It's Blitz! signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner's vintage Arp--the same model used on records by The Cars, Joy Division, and Kraftwerk--contributes atmospheric washes ("Skeletons"), disco wiggles ("Dance till you're dead!" Karen sings on "Heads Will Roll"), and New Wave melodrama ("Soft Shock"). The first single, "Zero," combines all these elements to create a dance-floor anthem that sings directly to the listener. "We've got a death grip on the adolescent way of feeling things," O said. That's something I'll never be able to shake in the music I write. It's almost feels like a John Hughes 80s movie." But acknowledging the past in this way doesn't sound make for a nostalgic-sounding album. "I think there's a cool stability reflected in this record," Brian Chase says. "It reflects our transformation, and how we've developed as people."

Yeah Yeah Yeahs已有相当大的进步——从他们同名EP那附庸风雅却又美妙的垃圾朋克，一直到Machine中直逼人心的紧迫感。《Fever to Tell》是乐队的第一张专辑（也是张标有Parental Advisory的专辑），乐队在专辑中的表现也同样显示他们的不断成长，但也显示这个组合开始不再完全拥有他们过去的一些特点。在时间利用效率上，他们的EP会是很好体现差异的范例，在乐队从前发行的EP中，噪音、旋律、混沌以及歌曲的总体结构所占的份额都在这个15到20分钟里安排得相当平衡。似乎乐队需要一张EP的时间限制来给他们的专辑限制界限——或许37分钟，因为《Fever to Tell》确实在几个不同的时段里听起来有点散漫而单调。这个问题主要是归结于差劲的专辑排序——乐队以他们所能录制出的最粗鲁最狂暴的声音作为专辑开篇，却又一下子转变成没完没了的实验以及优美的民谣作品——嘲讽的是，这种突然的转变就象这张专辑是他们有意把两张EP硬生生的拼起来的一样。乐队无论是崭新的一面还是延续以前的一面，都有非凡卓越——也有令人沮丧的时刻。
《Fever to Tell》的不足之处（象No No No，听起来冗长又罗嗦的一首朋克单曲，还捎加实验元素，不过这种实验音乐听起来有点笨拙。）也许他们应该从以前EP里拿来一些尝试过又获得成功的单曲，但这么做对于象Yeah Yeah Yeahs这种机敏善变的乐队来说无疑会让他们陷入停滞。事实上，他们在如此之短的时间内能够炮制出那么多的歌——尽管这只是他们的处女作——这张专辑听上去好象乐队正处于转型期；Yeah Yeah Yeahs也已经从根本上去重新思考他们音乐的发展。总而言之，《Fever to Tell》可能会让你觉得有些失望，但和EP中的好歌对于乐队成长的影响比起，专辑会显得更有价值，而这张专辑也无不证明就算Yeah Yeah Yeahs的音乐处于摇摆不定的阶段，但他们仍是一支令人激动的乐队。

Limited Edition two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) of the highly anticipated debut album from Glaswegian Indie sensations DVD features exlusive video content. Comprising of singer Jon, drummer Mince and Barry on bass (and shouting), The Fratellis mix up a brilliant concoction of 70s glam, 60s songwriting and a pinch of Punk. Costello Music features 13 tracks including the hit singles 'Chelsea Dagger', 'Whistle For The Choir' and 'Henrietta', as well as cuts from their limited edition eponymous EP.

B.R.M.C. is the self-titled debut album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, released on Virgin Records on April 3, 2001. This first release made an immediate impact through the music world, making them part of the 'garage revolution' that The Strokes spawned in the early 2000s. Although the album wasn't as popular as The Strokes's debut, it earned the band a stable fanbase.
The first 35 seconds of "Love Burns" incorporates a section of the song "TV Loop (Deep Down)", later released on the "Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll (Punk Song)" double-7-inch single and on the Screaming Gun EP.

脏手指2015年专辑

脏手指用自己最擅长的方式完成了《噢！脏手指：杭州的现场》。
这张专辑对于脏手指过去的音乐和现场几乎有着总结性的意义。它收录了脏手指在2020年7月31日杭州Mao的演出中，最能还原现场感的三首新歌和七首老歌。老歌之中，三首来自《猴子王》，三首来自《我怎么学的这么坏》，一首来自《滥情三部曲》。
专辑实体不仅包含CD，也包含相应的演出DVD。
词曲：脏手指
制作：脏手指
演奏：管啸天（主唱/吉他）邴晓海（吉他/伴唱）张海明（贝斯/伴唱）李子超（鼓）
录音/混音：沈帜
母带：李平
封面摄影：钟林江
封面设计：王靓 管啸天

UK five-track EP. The follow-up to their record-breaking UK #1 debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' and includes 'View From The Afternoon' plus four exclusive recordings 'Cigarette Smoker Fiona', 'Despair In The Departure Lounge', 'No Buses' & 'Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys'. Domino. 2006.

A short, sharp twelve track album of sensual, fresh, and atmospheric songs.

Japanese edition of 2001 album includes three bonus tracks (all previously released as UK B-sides), 'Joline', 'Handsprings' & 'Hotel Yorba' (Enhanced Video). 19 tracks.

Beat the Devil's Tattoo is the upcoming sixth album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, set for release on March 8, 2010 in Europe and on March 9, 2010 in North America. It is the first full-length on the band's own Abstract Dragon label, in partnership with Vagrant Records and Cooperative Music Group.

2003 debut on the Mute label from Sweden's Mando Diao. The band has toured with Hellacopters, Soundtrack Of Our Lives and Kent in their native Sweden. 12 fresh slabs of that Swedish garage punk that you've come to know & love.

回顾Black Rebel Motorcycle Club（以下简称BRMC）过往的所有录音室专辑，你会发现一个尴尬而又奇怪的现象：他们的专辑得到的评价始终褒贬不一，有人给出高分，就有人贬得一文不值。如今，面对他们的新作《Specter At The Feast》，这种情况依然存在。
但实际上，你能从这张作品中听出他们过往各个时期的特点——节奏平缓的开篇曲《Fire Walker》遥望了首张专辑《B.R.M.C.》；曲风激进的《Teenage Disease》和《Rival》是对《Take Them On, On Your Own》的回溯；《Howl》中的美式根源元素在此次的《Some Kind Of Ghost》、《Lullaby》等民谣作品中得以展现；《Hate The Taste》仅凭节奏就可以将人带回《Baby 81》时期；《Sell It》则是对上张专辑《Beat The Devil’s Tattoo》实验曲风的再扩大。
细心聆听你会发现，新专辑在整体节奏上更趋于平缓，慢歌所占的比重比前作更大，Robert Levon Been担任主唱的曲目也更多，这一切均源于Robert的父亲、同时也是乐队调音师Michael Been在2010年的离世。为了表达对其的敬意，乐队此次特意在专辑中翻唱了Michael原先乐队The Call的代表作《Let The Day Begin》，其意义不言自明。
此外，BRMC这次依然延续了每张专辑必有一首长篇曲目的传统，长达8分多钟的《Lose Yourself》以舒缓的节奏、伤感的气息为专辑收尾，Robert在其中唱道：“Close your eyes, and skip what you dream……Send your touch, but you can’t feel a thing.”这是献给其父的一曲挽歌，也是专辑中最让人动容的时刻。